Posted on 07/22/2002 11:53:12 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
"I must endure 30 years," Salieri complains bitterly in the play 'Amadeus,' "of being called 'distinguished' by people who cannot distinguish."
Are we on the way of being those people?
Among the more intangible of human qualities, our ability to distinguish is constantly enhanced as we grow older, gather and evaluate more experiences, cultivate our tastes, refine our hierarchy of values. The capacity to distinguish is neither a legal nor a political category.
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"police state"
"unconstitutional"
"Nazis"
"NWO"
and all the other hyperbolic hysteria that passes for reasoned debate lately.
If you don't like smokers, stay the hell away from us!
Hey, now you're discriminating. We can't have that. Opps, I almost forgot, all that talk about it being illegal for "public" restaurants and other "public" businesses to discriminate based on gender, race, religion age etc.... and now smokers must be discriminated against in several states.
It's not a public restaurant. For if it was public the police wouldn't need a search warrant. Police need warrants only for private property. If a private property owner decides he wants to invite strangers in from the street he can do that and the guest must follow the property owner's rules.
What's wrong with this picture?
Read the Fourth Amendment. Sheesh, we can't even trust our "employees" -- government officials -- to let them into our homes and businesses without a search warrant if we don't want to let them in. But somehow a business is forced to trust a total stranger with an open door policy. A person/business owner can refuse to allow a government agent access to his property but not a total stranger! And get this, it is the government -- the employee -- that can't be trusted that is telling property owners -- the employer -- that they must trust total strangers.
Discrimination laws must be repealed.
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